• Writer's Training Ground #012: "Maud Pie"


    This is a WTG with a mare who likes rocks. It is also a WTG with rocks.

    This week's prompts are below the break.


    In Equestria, there's no such thing as a "simple" rock farmer.

    While it was nice to meet Pinkie and her friends, Maud Pie must now return to her regular life. She never did let Pinkie know about her other side...

    Thanks to Kyle for the prompt!

    Read this if you're new. Take a prompt. Write a story about it. Send it in. We'll publish it.

    One of this week's prompts is more open-ended. Send us prompt ideas after the episode every week. We may use them, too.

    Da Rulez:
    • Keep the content appropriate as defined by our submission guidelines.
    • Keep it between 1,000 - 7,000 words. >Greentexts and doorstoppers should apply elsewhere!
    • Keep it to two genres maximum. For the roundup, fics will be grouped by their primary genre.

    When you finish working on your fic, use this form to submit it to the Training Grounds. However, we will require much of the same information as if you were submitting a regular fic as follows, and this document explains what these requirements are.

    1. Story title
    2. Author name
    3. Story description (~1 paragraph maximum)
    4. Word count
    5. Genre tags (2 tags maximum)
    6. Character tags (3 tags maximum)
    7. Story URL (must be hosted on FimFiction, GDocs, dA, etc.)
    8. Email address

    The deadline for submission is Thursday, March 20, 9:00 PM PDT.

    As always, please continue to leave us feedback with what works well for these events, what's not working well, your general satisfaction with these, etc. etc. and so on. Now get writing!